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Mystery Fiction - Selected Sources
General Resources
The Dictionary of Crime Terms
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The Golden Age of Murder: the Mystery of the Writers who Invented the Modern Detective Story
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Historical Dictionary of Crime Films
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The Private Eye: Detectives in the Movies
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Crime and Detective Fiction.
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Critical Survey of Mystery and Detective Fiction. (5vols.) 3rd Ed.
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Talking about Detective Fiction.
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The Crime Fiction Handbook.
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New Perspectives on detective fiction: mystery magnified
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The Poetics of Murder: Detective Fiction and Literary Theory
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Foul & Fair Play: Reading Genre in Classic Detective Fiction
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Detective fiction
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Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel
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British Crime Writing: An Encyclopedia. Barry Forshaw, Ed.
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Crime Fiction
Dictionary of British Literary Characters
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Women, Oxford and novels of crime
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The Figure of the Detective: a Literary History and Analysis.
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Great British Fictional Detectives.
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Mystery & Suspense Writers: the Literature of Crime Detection and Espionage
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Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
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Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation
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St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers
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The Detective Novels of Agatha Christie: A Readers Guide.
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Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction
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History of Mystery
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Hardboiled Mystery Writers: Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross McDonald: A Literary Reference
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Crime Fiction from Poe to the Present
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Encyclopedia of Nordic Crime Fiction: Works and authors of Denmark,Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden since 1967
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Crime Fiction IV, a Comprehensive Bibliography 1749-2000
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Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
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Make Mine a Mystery II: a Reader's Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction
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100 greatest literary detectives
Reference
Literary Criticism and Reviews Online Databases
UofT E-Resources http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/
MLA International Bibliography.
This database indexes sources on literature from 1963 to the present.
ABELL (Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature).
Humanities Index, Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature and Essay and General Literature Index
will provide citations to literary criticism articles and book chapters.
Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature
continues Poole’s Index covering periodical literature from 1800 to present.
Literature Resource Center (LRC)
provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline, with in-depth coverage of 2,500 of the most-studied authors.
MagillOnLiterature Plus
contains critical essays, plot summaries, character profilesfor 8,500+ long and short fiction writers. It also contains genre-driven essays with details about important literary genres and time periods.
Book Review Digest
provides citations and excerpts from reviews in popular journals, 1983 – the present. Book Review Digest Retrospective covers 1905-1982.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index
include citations of critical articles on popular culture, film and television. Online versions go back to 1982.
Online Reference Sources
(UofT e-Reference at http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/eresources)
Literature Resource Centre
Contemporary Authors Online, (biographical coverage); Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, with entries on authors; and Dictionary of Literary Biography Online.
Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790-1920
materials supporting the study of nineteenth century history, law, literature, and criminal justice (including detective novels)
Electronic Books (Selected - UofT)
Look up titles in the Uof T catalogue to view full text of the following books
A Companion to Crime Fiction
Classic Crime and Suspense Writers
Crime Fiction
Traces development and change in the formal and thematic elements of the genre thru time.
Classic Mystery Writers
Biographical, critical, and bibliographical info on the 13 most significant writers of mystery and detective fiction through the 1920s.
Murder by the Book
A critical overview of the wave of feminist crime novels which appeared in the 80s.
Gumshoe America : Hard-boiled Crime Fiction and the rise and Fall of New Deal Liberalism
Hardboiled & high heeled: the Woman Detective in Popular Culture
